Sterling Terrell

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The Way I Like To Remember

The Way I Like To Remember

We should like to remember things fondly.

Or, at least try to remember things fondly.

Nature may work in our favor here.

See, I think time has a way of filtering out some of the bad and highlighting the good.

But I could be wrong about that.

Some hurts simply take a long time to let go of.

I want to have an affection for every experience this life gives me.

The sweet ones. And the bitter ones too.

Because there was a reason for all of it. And because posterity and providence demands it.

Seriously though, that’s a beautiful way to remember someone who lost you $15 million! 🤮

At the appointed time Irving waltzed in with a very beautiful young woman who was a respected scientist: a cancer researcher at Sloan-Kettering. She did not speak a word, and they strolled off together hand in hand. It’s the way I like to remember Irving now: a small, impeccably dapper man strolling up Fifth Avenue with a beautiful young woman holding his hand.

-Larry McMurtry, Hollywood (Amazon)

The Golden Land

The Golden Land

When Joan Didion speaks of the golden land, she speaks of California.

But this touches on something universal.

For this passage echos of nearly every city I have ever been to.

I mean, the loss of memory she points to was the theme of this entire article on the Hajez.

How often, and how quickly, the next generation is ready to cast aside the past.

My advice is to remember the old ways.

I think remembering is one of the virtues of a life well-lived.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past. Here is where the hot wind blows and the old ways do not seem relevant, where the divorce rate is double the national average and where one person in every thirty-eight lives in a trailer.

-Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

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